Department of Barthes and Leathers

[lifeinpoetry]

English is my mother tongue. A mother tongue is not not a foreign lan lan lang language l/anguish anguish — a foreign anguish.

M. NourbeSe Philip, from “Discourse on the Logic of Language,” She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (via lifeinpoetry)

[purplebuddhaproject]

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E.F. Schumacher

(via purplebuddhaproject)

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

Meanwhile, I visit the word world.

Franz Wright, opening lines to “The Beforelife,” The Beforelife: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)

[dappledwithshadow]

Eugene Delacroix Tiger 1830

[dappledwithshadow]

Eugene Delacroix

[dailyactress]

Sharon Tate and Barbara Bouchet photographed at the Playboy Club in London.

[aintthatakick]

[karl-shakur]

10.1 ▪️ Karl-Shakur  ▪️ Instagram 

The Desert, California

[commander-uhura]

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.

Camille Paglia (via mazzello)

[design-art-architecture]

Dessuant Bone for Allaert aluminium

[lifeinpoetry]

English is my mother tongue. A mother tongue is not not a foreign lan lan lang language l/anguish anguish — a foreign anguish.

M. NourbeSe Philip, from “Discourse on the Logic of Language,” She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (via lifeinpoetry)

[gaius-marius]

Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme  | 1872

[sapalicious-deactivated20180226]

Visit Original Link

Erasure - Oh L'Amour (The Funky Sisters Remix)

….80s extended remix….lickalicious

[gustavklimt-art]

Lady With Fan 1918

Gustav Klimt

[habermassive-blog]

The difference between revolution and defiance is the difference between an overthrow of the existing order and one person's shaken fist. When the former isn't possible, you still have to hold on to the latter, if only so as to remember you're human. Defiance is the insistence on individual power confronting overwhelming force that it cannot undo. You know you cannot strike the colossus. But you can defy it with words or signs.

Mark Greif, “Radiohead or the philosophy of pop”

[habermassive-blog]

The hipster, in both black and white incarnations, in his essence had been about superior knowledge -- what Broyard called "a priorism." He insisted that hipsterism was developed from a sense that minorities in America were subject to decisions made about their lives by conspiracies of power they could never possibly know. The hip reaction was to insist, purely symbolically, on forms of knowledge that they posessed before anyone else.

Mark Greif, “What was the hipster?”

[habermassive-blog]

[The hipster] was a black subcultural figure of the late forties. . . A decade later, the hipster had evolved into a white subcultural figure. The hipster was explicitly defined by the desire of a white avant-garde to disaffiliate itself from whiteness, with its stain of Eisenhower, the bomb, and the corporation, and achieve the "cool" knowledge and exoticized energy, lust, and violence of black Americans.

Mark Greif, “What was the hipster?”